sched: let +nice tasks have smaller impact
Michel Dänzr has bisected an interactivity problem with
plus-reniced tasks back to this commit:
810e95ccd58d91369191aa4ecc9e6d4a10d8d0c8 is first bad commit
commit 810e95ccd58d91369191aa4ecc9e6d4a10d8d0c8
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200
sched: another wakeup_granularity fix
unit mis-match: wakeup_gran was used against a vruntime
fix this by assymetrically scaling the vtime of positive reniced
tasks.
Bisected-by: Michel Dänzer <michel@tungstengraphics.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index cf958aef..6c091d6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,11 @@
}
gran = sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
- if (unlikely(se->load.weight != NICE_0_LOAD))
+ /*
+ * More easily preempt - nice tasks, while not making
+ * it harder for + nice tasks.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(se->load.weight > NICE_0_LOAD))
gran = calc_delta_fair(gran, &se->load);
if (pse->vruntime + gran < se->vruntime)